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Obama Administration Sued over Secrecy Surrounding Nuclear Power Subsidies
After President Obama announced back in February that his administration would provide $8.3 billion in taxpayer-financed loan guarantees to the Southern Company to build two new nuclear reactors at …

Zimbabwe Restarts Diamond Sales Amid “Blood Diamond” Accusations
Zimbabwe reentered the legal diamond market this week with Tuesday's $72 million sale of 900,000 carats of the gems. The sale was supervised by an international ‘blood diamond’ watchdog …

Is Wall Street Making Life or Death Decisions?
Is your health insurance company traded on Wall Street? If so, is Wall Street deciding your medical care? It's hard to recall that for-profit corporations were once kept out …

News in Brief: Crucial Upcoming Elections in Afghanistan Face International Scrutiny, and More
Crucial Upcoming Elections in Afghanistan Face International Scrutiny

The Gulf at the Gas Station: Can We Calculate the True Cost of Our Dependence on Oil?
This might be an opportune time to make a disclosure: I am a BP shareholder. Admittedly, I’ve never attended the company’s annual meeting, and if I did, I would …

The Roots of the GOP’s Birth Citizenship Mania
Republican leaders have spent the last couple of weeks reigniting a 140-year-old constitutional debate: Whether the 14th Amendment should grant citizenship to everyone born inside United States territory. South …

“Neoliberalism and the Academic-Industrial Complex“
A recently published New York Times article entitled “The Academic-Industrial Complex” (July 31, 2010) outlines the growing trend of university presidents and other senior university officials serving on corporate …

Dr. James J. Zogby | GOP Drift
Republicans have dug a deep hole for themselves on matters related to the Middle East and Islam, reflecting the extent to which the Party has become captive of the …

Re-Hire the Teachers and Retire the Chancellor
“We are going to impose the new evaluation tools regardless” [of the outcome of talks with the union]. "We are going to be moving people out who are not …

Single Women Fend for Themselves in Recession
On the heels of another dismal job report and a flaming national debate over the meaning of marriage, the Center for American Progress presents a snapshot of the unmarried …